Directed evolution and in silico analysis of reaction centre proteins reveal molecular signatures of photosynthesis adaptation to radiation pressure

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Rea, Giuseppina ^a   Lambreva, Maya ^a   Polticelli, Fabio ^b   Bertalan, Ivo ^c   Antonacci, Amina ^a   Pastorelli, Sandro ^a   Damasso, Mario ^a   Johanningmeier, Udo ^c   Giardi, Maria Teresa ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FREE RADICAL; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHETIC D1 PROTEIN; PLASTOQUINONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CHLAMYDOMONAS; COMPUTER MODEL; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IONIZING RADIATION; MOLECULAR SIGNATURE; NEUTRON RADIATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTON MOTIVE FORCE; PROTON RADIATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; ADAPTATION; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EUKARYOTA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FREE RADICALS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; RADIATION, IONIZING;

EID: 79251546792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016216     Document Type: Article

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